it would help us. but i would try to help out some of my friends and neighbors who suffered more than i did. so hopefully we will spread the wealth a little bit. >> all you need to do is pick the correct five numbers between 1 and 59 and 9 correct powerball between 1 and 35 and the anothers of being seriously injured in an unprovoked alligator attack are better odds. >>shepard: on the day of the big drawing the numbers go up. rick: because it is 50-50 prize paul. half goes to the state and half to the pool. the bigger the prize the more people to play and the more people to play, the bigger the prize. you have 42 states and the district, and the virgin islands and this mean as lot of tickets are being sold and the busiest terminals are in towns that border states that don't have powerball like california. people are driving across the border into arizona to buy the tickets to chase this prize, the largest in the history of powerball and the second largest in the history of the lotteries. we covered tha